Pioneers of Wayne Co.

Shortly after Wayne County's creation in 1803, the 1805 Georgia Land Lottery was held to attract settlers from the settled coastal areas of
Georgia and immigrants from North and South Carolina. These settlers paid $419.60 for 490 acres of land. A bachelor was allocated one draw. Married
men with wife/child and widows with a minor child got two draws. This land was on the thin strip of land that was originally defined as Wayne
County. Many of the early settlers lived in the middle part of the strip around where the Big and Little Satilla Rivers crossed it. This "Tallassee"
strip went from the Altamaha River to the St. Marys River (current Florida state line). Much early activity in Wayne County was centered around
Waynesville (now Brantley County), where the county seat was before moving to Jesup.

Some of the pioneers of Wayne County have been identified as:

Stephen Crews

Jabez Dowling

William Drawdy

Thomas Fullwood

James Harper

David Highsmith

John Howell

James Jones

James Knox

Reddic Knox

Jessie Mizell

Joshua Mizell

John Munden

James Ratliff

Jacob Raulerson

Frederick Robeson

Charles Smith

Robert Stafford

James Strickland

John Strickland

Levi Strickland

Sources:
Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia Volume I by Folks Huxford
Wayne County, Georgia Its History and Its People edited by Bobby M. Martin. Published by The Press-Sentinel Newspapers, Inc - 1990.

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